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Google category IDs now available in Barcode-Lookup results

Starting today, we have added Google category IDs to the responses of the barcode-lookup API call.

Many clients requested this addition to make it easier to interoperate with other systems using the Google taxonomy.

Example JSON response:

{
    "ean":"5099750442227",
    "name":"Michael Jackson, Thriller",
    "categoryId":"45",
    "categoryName":"Music",
    "googleCategoryId":"855",
    "issuingCountry":"UK"
}

Example XML response:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<BarcodeLookupResponse>
    <product>
        <ean>5099750442227</ean>
        <name>Michael Jackson, Thriller</name>
        <categoryId>45</categoryId>
        <categoryName>Music</categoryName>
        <googleCategoryId>855</googleCategoryId>
        <issuingCountry>UK</issuingCountry>
   </product>
</BarcodeLookupResponse>

We provide the numeric Google category ID. You can use Google's list to find the category names in many languages.

Here are the full lists of category names with IDs:

US English
UK English
German
French
Dutch

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